Hi Matt, I am thinking you should restore your Content DB to SQL Server where an existing sharepoint environment is already configured. Your VM sounds fine. So restore your Content DB (Content.bak) to Sql Server, then go to Central Admin and create a Web Application. In the Create Web Application UI there is a property for the Content DB. This is filled out by default. Remove this entry and type in the name of your Content DB that you restored. This makes a connection between your Web Application and your Content DB. Hope this helps. Clayton James Consultant/Trainer Data Cogs Information Technology| Mob 0402 463 276 http://claytonj.wordpress.com
________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Matt Lynch Sent: Fri 16/11/2007 9:33 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [OzMOSS] Recovering data from a dead site Hi Aaron, Thanks for the tip. I'm on a client site where the only backups were done at SQL level, not through STS admin and even then not every file was backed up. Not fun... I've been building up a VM which *should* have a similar configuration as the old site. I'm about to see if you can create a empty site with the same name and switch the database files while the service is offline. Tzunami looks neat, though it doesn't mention anything about fixing broken installs, mainly about creating/migration new sites. Cheers, Matt From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aaron Saikovski Sent: Friday, 16 November 2007 9:01 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [OzMOSS] Recovering data from a dead site Hi Matt, You can try to restore the backups to a new site and recover the documents that way. Not fun but should work. That is create a new site, do a restore and you should be fine. or you can try a tool such as Tzunami (i think that what it was called) that might help. hth. Aaron ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 16 November 2007 8:55 AM To: Sharepoint List Subject: [OzMOSS] Recovering data from a dead site Hi everyone, I've been given the ungodly task of recovering documents from a dead sharepoint installation. They have the database files for the site, but the configuration database is gone and is not coming back. Does anyone know if there is a tool available to extract the documents from the DB? Cheers, Matt Join the Windows Server 2008 mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com - List managed by www.readify.net ------------------------------------------------------------------- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com - List managed by www.readify.net ------------------------------------------------------------------- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com - List managed by www.readify.net ------------------------------------------------------------------- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com - List managed by www.readify.net
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